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Yehoshua Frenkel

    Yehoshua Frenkel

    University of Haifa, Department of Middle Eastern History, Faculty Member
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Topographical and Archaeological Data in Middle Caliphate Sources,” in Rabei G. Khamisy, Rafael Y. Lewis, and Vardit R. Shotten-Hallel, eds., Exploring Outremer Volume I: Studies in Medieval History in Honour of Adrian J. Boas (London: Routledge, 2023), 207-215more
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    Publication Date: 2023
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Aydınlanan Geçmiş: Memlu k Yazınında Haçlı Seferleri’nin Go lgesi,” in Sevtap Gölgesiz Karaca, ed., Haçlı Seferleri – The Crusaders (Ankara: Paradigma Akademi, 2023), 145-160more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Piety, Prayer and Veneration of the Prophet in the Late Mamluk Period,” in Ines Weinrich, ed., In Praise of Making Sense of History: The Prophet Forms of Piety as Reflected in Arabic Literature (Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 2022), 381-396more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Management of Water in Fourteenth-Century Damascus,” in Amalia Levanoni, ed., Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and Cultural Aspects (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 235-254more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate’, by Mohamad El-Merheb,” Mamluk Studies Review, vol. 25 (2022): 225-228more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “On Networking and Book Production in Fourteenth-Century Damascus: Tāǧ al-Dīn al-Subkī’s and Ḫalīl b. Aybak al-Ṣafadī’s Working Methodology,” in Élise Franssen, ed., Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond (Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2022), 153-174more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Proceedings of the Themed Day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies’,” The English Historical Review, vol 137, no. 587 (August 2022): 1230-1233more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Awlād al-Nās in Mamlūk Jerusalem: An Inquiry Into Several Ḥaram Documents,” in Anna Kollatz, ed., Mamluk Descendants: In search for the awlād al-nās (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022), 217-236more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Waqf System During the Last Decades of Mamluk Rule,” in Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen, eds., The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century, 2 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022), 221-272more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Na’ima’, by Gül Şen,” Mamluk Studies Review, vol. 25 (2022): 221-223more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “A Concise History of Islamic Egypt,” in Miriam Frenkel, ed., The Jews in Medieval Egypt (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2021), 22-46more
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    Publication Date: 2021
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Mamluk Soundscape: A Chapter in Sensory History,” in Bethany J. Walker and Abdelkader Al Ghouz, eds., History and Society during the Mamluk Period (1250–1517) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht and Bonn University Press 2021), 127-162more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Saʿd ibn Mansur Ibn Kammūna al-Baghdādī, ‘Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice: Kalimāt wajīza mushtamila ʿalā nukat laṭīfa fī al-ʿilm wa-l-ʿamal’, trans. Y. Tzvi Langermann,” Der Islam, vol. 98, no. 2 (2021): 626-627more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Conversion of ʿAbd al-Sayyid, a Damascene Jew, by Qutb al-Dīn Mūsā b. Muhammad al-Yūnīnī,” in Nimrod Hurvitz, ‎ Christian C. Sahner, ‎ Uriel Simonsohn, eds., Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2020), 272-274more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Contribution of European Travel Literature to the Study of the Environmental History of the Levant (13th-15th centuries),” in Living with Nature and Things Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020), 705-724more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Slavery in 17th-Century Ottoman Jerusalem in light of Several Sharia Court Records,” in Stephan Conermann and Gül Şen, eds., Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/Bonn University Press, 2020), 237-282more
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    Publication Date: 2020
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Coming of the Barbarians: Can Climate Explain the Saljūqs’ Advance?” in Liang Emlyn Yang, Hans-Rudolf Bork, Xiuqi Fang, Steffen Mischke, eds., Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019), 261-274more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Embassies and Ambassadors in Mamluk Cairo,” in Frédéric Bauden and Makika Dekkiche, ed., Mamluk Cairo: A Crossroads for Embassies – Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 238-259more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes: Rationalized Traditionalistic Theology’, by Miriam Ovadia,” Der Islam, vol. 96, no. 2 (2019): 537-540more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Fires, Earthquakes, and Floods: The influence of extreme events on Mamluk Cities,” in Daniel Schneller and Guido Lassau, eds., Erdbeben, Feuer, Wasser und andere Katastrophen (Bern: Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, 2019), 1-14more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Mamluk Sultanate and its Neighbours: Economic, Social and Cultural Entanglements,” in Reuven Amitai and Stephan Conermann, eds., The Mamluk Sultanate fromthe Perspective of Regional and World History (Göttingen: V&R, 2019), 39-60more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Villagers, the Religious Establishment and the Mamlūk Military Aristocracy: Notes on the History of Migration and Land Tenure in Mamlūk Bilād al-Shām,” Cathedra, no. 173 (2019): 37-58 (Hebrew)more
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    Stephen Pow and Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Use of Environmental-Climatic Theories to Explain the Expansion and Contraction of the Saljuq and Mongol Empires: Are We Getting ‘Warm’ or ‘Cold’?,” Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, no. 25 (2019): 29-52more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Mamluk Historiography Revisited: Narratological Perspectives in Damascene Chronicles,” in Stephan Conermann, ed., Mamluk Historiography Revisited – Narratological Perspectives (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018), 27-50more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Some Notes Concerning the Trade and Education of Slave-Soldiers during the Mamluk Era,” in Christoph Cluse and Reuven Amitai, eds., Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Eastern Mediterranean 11th-15th Centuries (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018), 187-212more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Islam as a Peacemaking Religion: Self-Image, Medieval Theory, and Practice,” in Yvonne Friedman, ed., Religion and Peace Historical Aspects (London: Routledge, 2018), 84-97more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Mamluk Soundscape: A Chapter in Sensory History,” ASK Working Paper 31 (July 2018), 1-26more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Les Mamlelouks XIIIe-XVIe siècle’, by Julien Loiseau,” Mamluk Studies Review, vol. 20 (2017): 265-268more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Slave Girls and Learned Teachers: Women in Mamlūk Sources,” in Yuval Ben-Bassat, ed., Developing Perspectives in Mamluk History: Essays in Honor of Amalia Levanoni (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 158-176more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Conversion stories from the Mamlūk Period,” in Stephan Conermann, ed., Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period: Jews in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates (1171-1517) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2017), 75-94more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Jinns (genies),” in Cenap Çakmak, ed., Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2017)more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Masjid (Mosque),” in Cenap Çakmak, ed., Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO, 2017)more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Emergence of the Islamic Caliphate in Bilād al-Šām in the Light of Arabic Graffiti and Inscriptions,” in Rainer Voigt, ed., Studies in Honour of Enno Littmann (Köln: Studien zum Horn von Afrika 4, 2016), 273-293more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “In Search of Consensus: Conflict and Cohesion among the Political Elite of the Late Mamlūk Sultanate,” The Medieval History Journal, vol. 19, no. 2 (October 2016): 253–284more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Ottomans and the Mamluks through the Eyes of Arab Travelers (in16th–17th Centuries),” in The Mamluk-Ottoman Transition Continuity and Change in Egypt and Bilād al-Shām in the Sixteenth Century (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016), 275-294more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Fikāk al-Asīr: The Ransom of Muslim Captives in the Mamlūk Sultanat,” in Heike Grieser und Nicole Priesching, eds., Gefangenenloskauf im Mittelmeerraum (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2015), 143-157more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Crusaders, Muslims and Biblical Stories: Saladin and Joseph,” in Adrian J. Boas, ed., The Crusader World (London: Routledge, 2015), 362-377more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Baalbek,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Leiden: Brill, 2014)more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “al-Bāʿūnī,” in The Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 55-56more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Mapping the Mamluk Sultanate,” in Stephan Conermann, ed., History and Society during the Mamlūk Period (1250-1517), Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Research College (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 37-60more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Volksroman under the Mamluks: The Case of Tamīm ad-Dārī Popular Sira,” in Stephan Conermann, ed., History and Society during the Mamlūk Period (1250-1517), Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Research College (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 21-36more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Al-Biqāʿī’s Naval War-Report,” in Stephan Conermann, ed., History and Society during the Mamlūk Period (1250-1517): Studies of the Annemarie Schimmel Research College (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 9-20more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Is there a Mamlūk Culture?” in Stephan Conermann, ed., Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture (Berlin: EBVerlag, 2014), 5-30more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “An Introduction to the Environmental History of the Mamlūk Sultanate,” History Compass, vol. 12, no. 11 (2014): 866–878more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “The Mamluks Among the Nations: A Medieval Sultanate in its Global Context,” in Stephan Conermann, ed., Everything is on the Move: The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 61-79more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Alexandria in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century: A Mediterranean Port City and a Mamlūk Prison City,” al-Masaq, vol. 26, no. 1 (2014): 78-92more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Tamim al-Dari and Hebron during the Mamluk Period,” in Urbain Vermeulen, Keith D’hulster, and Jo van Steenbergen, eds., Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, vol. 7 (Leuven: Peeters, 2013), 435-446more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Review of ‘Islamic Law in Action, Authority, Regulation, and Everyday Experiences in Mamluk Egypt’, by Kristen Stilt,” Der Islam, vol. 90, no. 2 (October 2013): 467-471more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Narratives of Animals in Mamluk Sources,” in Urbain Vermeulen, Keith D’hulster, and Jo van Steenbergen, eds., Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, vol. 7 (Leuven: Peeters, 2013), 421-434more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, “Between Mongols and Ottoman: Nazareth in the Mamluk Period,” in Mahmoud Yazbak and Sharif Sharif, eds., Nazareth History and Cultural Heritage (Nazareth: Nazareth Academic Studies Series no. 2, 2013), 19-38more
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    Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Zamlakānī, *Maqāmat al-Naṣr fī Manāqīb Imām al-ʿAṣr*, ed. and trans. Yehoshua Frenkel (Göttingen: V&R, 2023)more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, *The Turkic Peoples in Medieval Arabic Writings* (London: Routledge, 2015)more
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    Yehoshua Frenkel, *Ḍawʾ al-sārī li-maʿrifat ḫabar Tamīm al-Dārī (On Tamīm al-Dārī and His Waqf in Hebron): Critical Arabic Edition of al-Maqrizi, Ibn Hajar and al-Suyuti Epistles (Leiden: Brill, 2014)more
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    Claude Cahen, *Islam*, ed. Yehoshua Frenkel (Tel-Aviv: Dvir, 1995; Hebrew)more
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    Albert Hourani, *A History of the Arab Peoples*, ed. Yehoshua Frenkel (Tel-Aviv: Dvir, 1991; Hebrew)more
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